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The small slate and tight pricing of an NFL wild-card round alters the challenge of picking our spots to differentiate from the pack in DraftKings tournaments and GPPs. It can involve a little more wincing.

Alas, we'll assemble a mix of high-ceiling options and make a contrarian bet on an underdog side yielding low-priced options. This is not referring to the Chiefs, as we're just going to eat the chalk on Tyreek Hill and differentiate elsewhere.

1QB Drew Brees, NO vs. CAR ($6,400)

The Saints stack starts here. Carolina's allowed the most yards per play and the third-highest mark per pass since Week 15. Enter Brees, the league leader in yards per attempt. The Panthers have low-key struggled since eliminating Green Bay, and we're jamming New Orleans in Superdome.

2RB Alvin Kamara, NO vs. CAR ($8,600)

Kamara's topped 25 DK points in six of his past eight full games, which not even Todd Gurley can say. Since Gurley's up at $9,700, we'll pocket the $1,100 and hope he doesn't drop 40-plus on the Falcons.

3RB Tevin Coleman, ATL @ LAR ($4,100)

We might move to Marcus Murphy here if LeSean McCoy's ruled out and we get reports that Murphy is in line for the featured role. For now, we'll bank on Coleman hitting the upper end of his usage range — so mid-teens in carries and six targets — while finding paydirt against a Rams defense allowing the third-most DK points to backs.

4WR Julio Jones, ATL @ LAR ($8,000)

Making your way up to Julio in do-or-die games can be quite optimal, as he's topped 180 receiving yards in two of his past four playoff games. Jones leads the entire NFL in air yards since Week 14, making $8K amenable for the ultimate upside play. Trumaine Johnson may shadow, though he only ranks 70th among 86 qualifying corners in Pro Football Focus' yards allowed per coverage snap.

5WR Tyreek Hill, KC vs. TEN ($6,800)

The price points get us in a position where we choose between Hill and Travis Kelce. With Tennessee's own coach saying they'll give Kevin Byard — Pro Football Focus' No. 3-ranked safety — a big role in covering Kelce, we'll assume Hill gets the better matchup of the two and sees a relatively small amount of deep safety help from Byard.

6WR Ted Ginn Jr., NO vs. CAR ($5,200)

The Revenge Game Narrative is nice, but we're more enamored with Ginn leading the Saints in air yards over the season's final two weeks. We're semi-fading the Brees-Thomas stack with a Brees-Kamara-Ginn stack, and ideally this Saints pivot pays off in tournaments.

7TE Delanie Walker, TEN @ KC ($4,700)

While the yardage hasn't been there recently, Walker's locked in for five-plus targets, and no tight end on the slate has seen more targets inside the 10 this season. Walker also gets a solid TE matchup, as Daniel Sorensen allows the most yards per coverage snap on the slate, per PFF's TE matchup chart.

8FLEX Corey Davis, TEN @ KC ($3,600)

Davis spent most of his rookie season coming off a hammy injury and developing chemistry with Marcus Mariota before finally emerging in Week 16 with a 91 yards on some impressive downfield work. He's the Titans' leader in air yards since then and faces a KC defense allowing the most DK points to receivers. Per PFF data, Davis only lines up to Marcus Peters' side on 38 percent of his routes.

9D/ST Bills @ Jaguars ($2,500)

If LeSean McCoy doesn't play then we run a much bigger risk of the Bills scoring zero points and the Jaguars matching that with zero throws over 10 yards downfield. So, we may want to pivot since turnovers are the name of the D/ST game. If McCoy does play, we could see much more action between the Bills secondary, which has five picks in the past three weeks, and Blake Bortles, who's thrown five in the past two.